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BOARD BIOGRAPHIES ARCE 2020 General Member’s Meeting May 30, 2020 CURRENT SLATE NICOLA ARAVECCHIA Nicola Aravecchia (Nominated Elected Governor) is currently Assistant Professor of Classics and of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a BA in Classical Studies from the University of Bologna, an MA in Ancient and Medieval Art & Archaeology and a Ph.D. in Art History both from the University of Minnesota. He is the Archaeological Field Director of the excavations at ʿAin el-Gedida, a fourth-century settlement in the Dakhla Oasis of Upper Egypt, and the Deputy Field Director at Amheida/Trimithis, a Graeco-Roman city in Dakhla Oasis. Nicola is also a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. In the Spring of 2016, he was the invited Chair of Coptic Studies at The American University in Cairo. Nicola’s research interests encompass the art and archaeology of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt. In particular, they focus on the origins and development of Early Christian architecture in Egypt’s Western Desert. Nicola is the main author of the final archaeological report on ʿAin el-Gedida, as well as the co- author of a volume on the Amheida excavations. He has also written articles and essays on related subjects, including Early Egyptian monasticism. DENISE DOXEY Denise Doxey (Nominated Elected Governor) is curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously, she was keeper of the Egyptian section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She completed her M.Phil at Oxford University and her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author or co-author of numerous publications on Egyptian and Nubian art, archaeology and civilization. She has excavated in Greece and Egypt and has taught Egyptology courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. She currently serves on the board of ICOM’s International Committee for Egyptology and is president of the New England chapter of ARCE. MELINDA HARTWIG Melinda Hartwig (Presidential Appointee) is the curator of ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Previously, she taught at Georgia State University as a professor of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern art and archaeology. Besides curating a number of exhibitions, she has authored four books and a wide array of articles. Melinda has worked in Egypt since 1983, directing Theban tomb documentation and conservation projects, as a recipient of NEH and USAID grants, among others. She received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. JANICE KAMRIN Janice Kamrin (Presidential Appointee) is an associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has been since 2010. One of her primary responsibilities is to oversee the Egyptian Art department's work in the Museum's database; she is also part of a project to digitize, process, and prepare for eventual on- line publication of the work of the Met's early 20th century Egyptian Expedition to Thebes. She is Board Bios 1 currently part of the Joint Expedition to Malqata, the Festival Palace of Amenhotep III on the West Bank of Luxor. Prior to her work at the Met, she served as project director for a cluster of ARCE- sponsored projects at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. These included the Egyptian Museum Registrar Training and Database projects, which oversaw the creation of a new database for the Egyptian Museum and the intensive training of young Egyptians to serve as registrars and documentation specialists RITA LUCARELLI Rita Lucarelli (Nominated Elected Governor) is currently an Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. From 2005 to 2010, Lucarelli held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona, Italy. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn, Germany. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University (2009) and at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of NYU (2012). Until June 2014 she worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, and she held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy. Rita Lucarelli is a Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley and Fellow of the Digital Humanities in Berkeley. She is presently working at a project aiming at realizing 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins of the Hearst Museum; the magical spells decorating these objects are taken as case-study for investigating the materiality of the text in relation to ancient Egyptian funerary literature. Rita Lucarelli is completing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: http://www.demonthings.com. NADINE MOELLER Nadine Moeller (Nominated Elected Governor) is Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2004, and held the Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford, from 2004-2007. Her primary research interests are settlement archaeology and urbanism in ancient Egypt. Her recently published book is entitled ‘The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt – The settlements from the Predynastic Period to the end of the Middle Kingdom’ (published in April 2016 with Cambridge University Press) which brings together the latest archaeological data and presents a new in -depth study setting the parameters for Egypt as an early urban society. She has been directing the Tell Edfu Project since 2001, and since 2010 she has been co-directing this project with Gregory Marouard, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute. Apart from Tell Edfu, she has also participated in numerous other excavations and fieldwork projects in Egypt. ROBERT K. RITNER Robert Ritner (nominated RSM Council representative) is the Rowe Professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and was, from 1991- 1996, the first Marilyn M. Simpson Assistant Professor of Egyptology at Yale University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Ritner is the author of over 100 publications on Egyptian religion, magic, medicine, language and literature, as well as social and political history. He has lectured extensively on each of these topics throughout the United States, Europe and Egypt. In association with The Field Museum of Chicago, Dr. Ritner was the academic advisor for an Egypt installation and for two British Museum exhibits: “Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth and Eternal Egypt.” In addition, he served as consultant and lecturer for the traveling Cairo Museum exhibit “Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt.” Dr. Ritner has led Oriental Institute tours of Egypt for 30 years. He has been an ARCE member since 1975. Board Bios 2 ADAM SABRA Dr. Adam Sabra (Nominated Elected Governor) is Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His teaching and research focus on the Middle East, particularly Egypt, in the medieval and early modern periods, and the social and cultural history of Cairo. Other areas of interest include legal history and Islamic mysticism. Dr. Sabra has served on ARCE’s Fellowship Committee twice in the past 10 years and has been a fellow three times, once as a dissertation scholar and twice as an NEH funded fellow. ADINA SAVIN Adina Savin (Presidential Appointee) is the Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, Walt Disney Television with oversight of the Business Affairs and Contract Administration teams for Disney Channels Worldwide and Disney Television Animation. She is based in Los Angeles, California. She earned her B.A in Political Science from the University of Southern California, her M.A. from the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, and her J.D from New York University Law School. As a top scholar and student leader, she was the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and financial support that made her education possible. To pay forward to others, Ms. Savin endowed a scholarship at USC in 2016, and last year, endowed another scholarship at NYU Law. She previously served 15 years as a member of ARCE’s national Board of Governors, is currently a member of the Board of Governors of ARCE’s Southern California chapter, and is a Trustee of the Cheetah Conservation Fund. Ancient Egypt has been a passion since she was a young girl, and she fulfilled a life-long dream years ago when she became a volunteer on the excavation of Tomb 21 in the Valley of the Kings, in Luxor, Egypt. CURRENT BOARD: OFFICERS PRESIDENT: BETSY BRYAN Betsy Bryan is the Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. Her areas of specialization are history, art and archaeology of the New Kingdom. Her current fieldwork is in the temple complex of the goddess Mut at South Karnak, and her research focuses on defining the earliest forms of the temple of Mut of Isheru.